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Anne B. Fulton, MD is a distinguished researcher and clinician at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, where she serves as Principal Investigator with continuous NIH funding for over 30 years. She divides her time equally between research and clinical practice, focusing on pediatric ophthalmology and visual development, and leads the Infant Vision Laboratory.
Her educational background includes:
- Undergraduate: Radcliffe College (1962)
- Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine (1996)
- Internship: Grady Memorial Hospital (1967)
- Residency: Yale University School of Medicine (1976)
Dr. Fulton's research focuses on the development of retinal and visual function in infants and children. She pioneered work recognizing rod photoreceptors as a site of critical immaturity for infants' vision and determined the growth curve for the rod visual pigment, rhodopsin. Her laboratory brought first-rate visual electrophysiology and psychophysics to the department, perfected non-invasive assessments of infant and child patients, and related normal developmental changes in retinal and visual function to underlying retinal biochemistry and structure. She demonstrated that rhodopsin content scales the developmental increment in dark-adapted retinal and visual sensitivity. More recently, she introduced adaptive optics imaging to provide non-invasive retinal assessments at a cellular level. Her currently funded research applies these procedures to study retinal disorders, particularly retinopathy of prematurity.
Her recent publications demonstrate a continued focus on retinal disorders, particularly retinopathy of prematurity, Stargardt disease, and other inherited retinal conditions. Her work combines clinical research with advanced imaging techniques to better understand disease mechanisms and improve diagnostic and treatment approaches. She has made seminal contributions to understanding photoreceptor development and function in infants and children, with particular emphasis on the role of rhodopsin in visual maturation.
Dr. Fulton's research has been continuously funded by the NIH for more than three decades, reflecting the significance and impact of her work in pediatric ophthalmology and visual development. She has established herself as a leading authority in the field of infant vision development and retinal function assessment.
She leads the Infant Vision Laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital, where her team conducts cutting-edge research on retinal function and development in infants and children. Her laboratory has been instrumental in developing and perfecting non-invasive assessment techniques for evaluating visual function in pediatric patients, which has significantly advanced the clinical care of children with visual disorders.
